Communication Skills in Spanish (2225.YR.014801.1)

General information

Type:	OPT	Curs:	3	Period:	S semester
ECTS Credits:	4 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group	Teacher	Department	Language
Year 3	Joaquin Boyero Merino	Sección Español	ESP

To take part in this course, students must have a B2 level (CEFR) of Spanish or have successfully passed the Spanish for Professional Communication (level 3) course.

To take part in this course, students must have a B2 level (CEFR) of Spanish or have successfully passed this level.

Every class session includes activities to be carried out outside of class to help students assimilate the content through practice.

In an world that is more globalised than ever, business is not only undertaken at a regional level, or solely with a neighbouring country, but on a far wider scale. As such, versatile and multilingual communication skills are necessary along with a broad and varied cultural background.

Globalisation also affects the job market, there is greater competition than ever and, in the case of the students that come to ESADE, the need to master Spanish is evidently important as it provides access to job markets in places such as in Latin America.

With regard to the programme, learning and mastering Spanish will provide an opportunity for students to attend classes, lectures and workshops delivered in Spanish as well as interact with their peers without difficulties.

This Spanish language course focuses specifically on communication skills in a global, political and economic context. ESADE offers programme participants the opportunity to carry out an advanced language course with two specific objectives: 1. Ensure that students improve their mastery of the language; and 2. Improve their confidence when using Spanish in global, political and economic contexts.

1. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT - Make comparisons using complex structures. - Express conditions in the present, past and future. - Give advice and make suggestions. - Persuade and convince. - Organise written and spoken discourse. - Connect ideas in a text. - Structure ideas in specific texts. - Argue for and against an idea or opinion. - Summarise texts. - Give and follow complex instructions. - Clearly explain the stages of a process. - Delimit the scope of something. - Express different ways of doing something. - Express causes and reasons. - Express consequences.

2. GRAMMATICAL CONTENT - Comparative and concessive phrases. - Conditional phrases: impossible or improbable conditional, hypothetical conditional in the past. - Structues with the Subjunctive (Te sugeriría que..., lo mejor sería que + Imp. Subj.) - Reported speech: when the original message is expressed as an Imperative or in the Present Subjunctive. - Connectives: for challenging arguments (opposition, substitution, restriction, concession), comparisons and consecutive clauses (tan/tanto + que/como), conditionals. - Adversative, concessive, modal, causal and consecutive phrases. - Meta-textural discourse markets: to re-formulate (explanations, rectifications, creating distance), to reaffirm or emphasise, to remit, digressions.

3. THEMATIC AND LEXICAL CONTENT - History and society. - Politics and economy. - Art and advertising. - Communications media. - Literature and film. - Music. - Sport. - New technologies. - Cultural aspects and differences. - Formal, administrative and legal texts. - Professional studies and careers.

4. CULTURAL CONTENT - Social formulas in Spain and Latin America. - Folklore: typical objects, music, dance, festivals. - Compliments. - Stereotypes. - Set phrases and sayings. - Doing business in Spain and Latin American countries. - Humour. - Interjections.

The methodology of the language courses is the following:

- Participative classes, giving priority to the most communicative aspects.
- Greater emphasis on oral production through presentations, discussions and interactive tasks among students in a relaxed environment that promotes learning.
- Motivation of the student in class to encourage participation and learning.

Gramática de uso del español: teoría y práctica C1-C2. Editorial SM.

Group	Teacher	Department
Year 3	Joaquin Boyero Merino	Sección Español